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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Stephan, Hans-Georg, "Der Chirurg von der Weser (ca. 1200-1265) — ein Glücksfall der Archäologie und Medizingeschichte", Sudhoffs Archiv, 77/2 (1993), 174-192.
- Resum
- During archaeological excavations in the deserted medieval town Corvey parts of a surgical collection were found amoung other things in a cellar filled with building debris and burnt household furniture dating from the year 1265. Besides a pair of iron scissors and two different needles of nonferrous metal, which were probably used for operations, most importantly a cautery and a scalpel should be mentioned. From this we can draw a conclusion that a highly specialized physician lived and worked in the center of the town at the market not far from the main burgess church. There is every indication, that a physician, known in the history of medicine as "the surgeon from the Weser", practised here his profession in the middle of the 13th century, who after studying and settling down first in Bologna, then in Montpellier and finally in Paris came back to the town he supposedly came from. We can only hope that in the near future it will be possible to excavate this plot from which only a small part is excavated by now. In the course of these excavations far-reaching information about the life and activity of this man ca be expected. He represents the early group of physicians who had a university education, and was able to get well-acquainted with the famous school of monastic medicine through his activity in Corvey. Such studies should find an adequate frame in interdisciplinary research project at Corvey with emphasis on the early and high Middle Ages. They represent an exemplary case study of high value, because documenting historically known individuals of this period who are socially laymen is rarely possible in archaeological material.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Arqueologia
- URL
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/20777426
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